This study presents survey data assessing the civic and place engagement of Latino residents of three inner-ring Latino neighborhoods in Phoenix, Miami, and Chicago. We utilize a Latino/a Studies-inspired conceptual framework to assess the civic and place engagement of

Findings reveal that overall Latin American immigrants and their American-born offspring appear to be becoming American with regard to their ethnic and racial identities vi quickly, evidenced through the salience and active employment of panethnic labels, while at the same time they are actively reshaping the identificational structure. The Latino population, however, is not monolithic and is cleaved by diversity within the group, including country of origin and socioeconomic status. These same factors impede group cohesion in terms of trust and its correlate, community. Nevertheless, the historically dominant ancestry group in Little Havana -Cubans -has been able to reach notable levels of trust and build and conserve a more solid sense of community than non-Cuban residents. With respect to civic engagement, neighborhood residents generally participate at rates lower than the overall US population and ethnic subpopulations. This is not the case for political engagement, however, where self-reported voting registration and turnout in Little Havana surpasses that of most benchmarked populations. The empirical evidence presented in this dissertation on the case of Latinos in Little Havana challenges the ways that identity, trust, and civic engagement are conceptualized and theorized, especially among immigrants to the US.

ResumenUn sector que se ha desarrollado en losúltimos años en Cuba es el cuentapropista, donde se encuentra un grupo de jóvenes emprendedores con aspiraciones, propósitos y metas. Una dimensión de su experiencia empresaria que influirá en eléxito de su negocio es el poder organizar su tiempo de manera eficaz. Aquí presentamos los resultados de un estudio preliminar realizado con cuatro jóvenes cuentapropistas del Consejo Popular Sao Arriba del municipio Holguín en el oriente cubano, con el objetivo de abrir un nuevo campo de estudio de la organización temporal. Realizada entre septiembre 2016 y mayo 2017, la investigación permite describir y diagnosticar las habilidades de organización temporal en los participantes utilizando varias técnicas de indagación. Los resultados revelan que los jóvenes cuentapropistas emplean la mayor parte de su tiempo en las esferas laboral y familiar, sobre las que existe una organización temporal que configura su estilo de vida. Concretamente demuestran habilidades para la planificación de sentido de lo importante y urgente, una consideración de las condiciones para realizar sus labores como cuentapropistas, un ordenamiento flexible de sus actividades donde predomina la planificación a corto y mediano plazos, y el control de la marcha utilizando diversos medios para organizarse temporalmente. AbstractThe self-employment sector in Cuba has developed in recent years and contains a cohort of young adult entrepreneurs full of aspirations, intentions and goals. One dimension of their experience as businesspeople that will influence the success of their enterprises is the ability to organize their time efficiently. Here we present the results of a case study of four young adult C

This article addresses the axiological dimension of the political-legal thinking of José Martí, whose work became one of the principal instances of discursive legitimisation within the Cuban public square of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its inclusive nature stands out for its construction based on multicultural philosophical points of reference. The discourse successfully established the need for a radical change in Cuban reality at the end of the nineteenth century, in search of an institutional framework that would guarantee the ‘full dignity of man’ rooted in the attainment of the values of justice, equality, solidarity and freedom.

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